At the LinuxCon 2011, which took place in Japan, Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman sat down to talk about Linux â€“ how much it has achieved in the last two decades, the kernel development process, Linux on desktop etc.

According to the Free Software Foundation, freedom of the software cannot be guaranteed with OpenOffice.org which is under the Apache License now. Now, they are suggesting that users and developers look at LibreOffice instead.

A majority of the bank accounts being used in this drug abuse are based outside of the US. The decentralized nature of Bitcoin combined with offshore bank accounts leaves very little in the hand of federal authorities to act upon.

The Document Foundation has released a new version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 3.4 has a number of improvements which gives it better performance and integrates better with the Gtk theme. Read on for the improvements and the download link.

This week, the main talking point in the world of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is Oracle giving OpenOffice.org to the Apache foundation. There has been interesting developments for Ubuntu as well. Let us take a look at some of the most the important FOSS news of the week.